lspeer
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La Salina Beach Hotel - KM 73 Baja
The La Salina Beach Hotel has 8 rooms, all with an ocean view. The hotel and cantina are located 200 meters north of Puerto Salina. The rooms were
recently remodeled and are in good condition. Weekend rates are $50-$75, 1 bed-2 bed. The rooms are nice but the location and the beach are the
biggest assets. Clean sandy beach right next to the marina. The cantina (under the hotel rooms) has been around 50 years and has lots of local
character. Part of it is even made from adobe. It's not Mandalay Bay but worth the price for an ocean front view.
www.LaSalinaBeachHotel.com
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David K
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The same cantina made famous in Bernie Swaim's first book?
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BajaRob
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Si
the same. We stayed 4 nights there last year around the time of the book-signing. The positive is that La Salina allows pets. The negatives were that
the rooms were threadbare, musty, dirty and noisy. Luckily, we won a free nights stay at Rosarito Bed and Breakfast and that is where we will spend 2
nights around this years signing and wine tasting.
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Baja Bernie
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I love La Salina
but never could undrstand how anyone could stay above the Cantina on a Friday or Saturday night without first consuming at least 10 slammers. The
maintenance has always been less than adequate.
Tossing a tarp on the beach would be preferred, at least by me.
The Cantina is well worth a long visit (s). Lot of friendly Baja characters still hang there.
My smidgen of a claim to fame is that I have had so many really good friends. By Bernie Swaim December 2007
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carlo
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I've been going to Angels Camp for over 20 years and I've never heard of the book. Are you sure La Salina didn't make it famous?
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DENNIS
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No, No. It's a proven fact, Bernie made it famous. Everybody knows that.
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Baja Bernie
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Hey Carlo
Did you attend Joe's wake last year................He was a legend in Angels camp for years.... a bit longer than you say you have been there. I
covered him in one of my books and he was a good friend as were most of the folks in my books.
How about Snap On Bill's it was the day after Joes...........broke my heart because I traveled down to see Joe and ran into a day old announcement and
then wandered over to La Salinas with my tail between my legs and then got the second barrel..............The wake for Bill Almstedt was on that day!
Talked with his sons.............cried quietly and snuck out of camp totally overwhelmed by the death of two such good friends within a very sort
period. Yes! My friend I have been there.
Not trying to argue......just honoring the guys and gals that came, way, before you.
Or how about Cowboy! or any number of other characters who crashed around those lava rocks.............had to use explosives to dig outhouses. Yes,
my friend I was there about 50 years ago and recorded what I lived........Hope you do the same.
Dennis, Thanks but sorry that is not necessarily true..........I just wrote about what happened. And what happened was a ton of fun!
P.S. Dick Harrison, the boss, at the Cantina sold over 400 of my book "Mi Baja" because he was the guy who insisted that I write the damn thing
because I was the last of the founders of La Salina Del Mar. Not because I lived longer, I was just younger to start.
Hey, You are sitting on a Paradise so enjoy it and watch for the green flash.
My smidgen of a claim to fame is that I have had so many really good friends. By Bernie Swaim December 2007
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DENNIS
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Oh well, Bernie ---
I just choose to believe you had your mitts in most everything around there at one time or another. Except the demise of the A-Frame.
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Baja Bernie
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Yeah! Dennis
That truly broke my heart! The love that was destroyed there!
My smidgen of a claim to fame is that I have had so many really good friends. By Bernie Swaim December 2007
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howat
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Open?
Is the Hotel still open? About a month ago i stopped to check out Marina La Salina for my upcoming 5/12 fishing trip. While at the marina drove up
to the Hotel and it appeared closed. It was about noon on a wednesday.
Dennis
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carlo
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The hotel is open, it's just quiet during the week. We stayed there last weekend. They now have free internet and a phone for reservations.
www.LaSalinaBeachHotel.com
[Edited on 6-23-2008 by carlo]
[Edited on 6-23-2008 by carlo]
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Baja Bernie
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Hey Carlo
Why would you stay at the La Salina Hotel when you have a place in Angels..................The only reason folks used to stay in the Cantina was when
what is now the Marina flooded and blocked the road into Angels.
My smidgen of a claim to fame is that I have had so many really good friends. By Bernie Swaim December 2007
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carlo
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I do not have a place at Angles Camp which is why I stay at the hotel.
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bajabound2005
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That's probably because there is no "angles camp"...perhaps you meant anGELS camp, which does change the entire meaning of what you were trying to
say. Yep, I'm a bit%$
Friends don't let friends drink white zinfandel.
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Baja Bernie
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bajabound
Never thought of you as that type person...........You are most correct....and perhaps a bit harsh.....but I hit the keys in the incorrect
order............I do believe that the meaning is still clear to most folks.............
So sorry!
Whoops.......Carlo's first post said something about being in Angels Camp for 20 years...........????????
It has been a while since we have had a spelling cop on the board.
My smidgen of a claim to fame is that I have had so many really good friends. By Bernie Swaim December 2007
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carlo
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I said that I've been going there for 20 years, not that I had a place there. My friend has a hut, shack or whatever you want to call it.
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cjesme
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Anyone know of a rental in this area for June and July of 2009??
Carlita and Esteban
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Terry28
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I e-mailed you...Carla
Mexico!! Where two can live as cheaply as one.....but it costs twice as much.....
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